The Rockford chapter of the experimental aircraft association shows off its progress on a kit plane. EAA Chapter 22 at Cottonwood Airport held its weekly build night. They're working on a "Murphy ...

Keeping a builder's log is an important part of constructing an Experimental aircraft-but it's rarely anyone's favorite task. The KitFlight app aims to change that, offering a modern, mobile-first ...

Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commercial activity. Mark Strauss The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has a new airplane: a Sonex Waiex-B that was built in one week at the Experimental ...

Key Points and Summary: The Boeing YF-118G Bird of Prey was a revolutionary experimental aircraft developed in secret at Area 51 during the 1990s to test next-generation stealth technologies at a low ...

Plane could help pave way for faster commercial air travel Aircraft built to break sound barrier with sonic 'thump' Designed to cruise at Mach 1.4 at altitude of 55,000 feet First test flight was ...

Just how do you eat an elephant? Start with the first bite, that’s how. And that’s the aeronautical version of what local resident Allen Maris, 50, of Santa Ynez has bitten off with the construction ...

Scaled Composites announces the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401. Scaled worked with a proprietary customer to build two vehicles to demonstrate ...

The Northrop X-4 Bantam had a tendency to pitch nose-down at high speeds—generally not a desirable condition for a plane. Experimental aircraft—usually designated by “X” markings in U.S. aircraft ...

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was an experimental aircraft built to test vertical takeoffs and landings ...

With the idea of applying the technology of aircraft to submarines, this experimental stealth ship first met the sea in the 1980s.

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the ...